It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
